Make Primal Scream History
― sonnyboy, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the 2nd primals album a lot. its better than rcb, sfg and dont...
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myfreedownload.co.uk/primalscream
Urban Guerilla. Primal Scream are now officially 100% embarrassing.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't guerrilla have, erm, two "r"s? or are SFA wrong?
― Just got offed, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe Hawkwind spelled it that way, that's obviously where Blobby stole it from
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 14,800,000 for guerrilla. (0.19 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 9,600,000 for guerilla. (0.22 seconds)
― Just got offed, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean it's clearly "Guerrilla"; do things like "La Guere" or "Roger Guerero" ring true? Exactly.
― Just got offed, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks wrong somehow with two "R"s, though.
I'd d/l it for the lulz but I don't fancy giving them my email address.
― Pashmina, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/urban.jpg
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/Hawkwind/_/Urban+Guerilla
Is it a cover of this? That wd be totally lulzy if so.
― Pashmina, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Scik Mouthy, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:07 (10 hours ago) Link
Haven't they been officially embarrassing for a couple of years now?
― Lolpez, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
heh. heh. heh. heh.
― banriquit, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
THE RECORD, TITLED ’BEAUTIFUL FUTURE’, IS OUT JULY 21ST, AND FEATURES TRACKS PRODUCED BY, AMONGST OTHERS, BJORN YTTLING (PETER, BJORN AND JOHN) AND PAUL EPWORTH (BLOC PARTY).
?!??!?!! WHY WHY WHY
― stephen, Saturday, 14 June 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's a Hawkwind version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDbLXwQCzo although it seems they have a few versions?
Damn.
― Chelvis, Saturday, 14 June 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn that Hawkwind track kicks ass.
Unfortunately it seems ripe for a Scream cover, so I bet that is what's going on. I say that as someone who really likes PS about 60% of the time. But that other 40%? Who would've thought it possible to have such a love/hate relationship with the output of a single band, as I and many others seem to with them. But as much as I dig tracks up to and including much of Evil Heat, I was really hoping that after the latest gratuitous round of trad (fuck fuck fuck their faux Stones blooze rock, just fucking piss on it) that they'd move past the tired MC5, neo-white-panther schtick and get back to the whole drugs/beats/killer grooves method of course (I'll take that in the angry electro-rock and/or the sunny hedonism variety, thanks).
Well that's that, then. Nice knowing you Bobby. I've given you many chances, and at times you've rewarded my patience -- but nobody ever really took you seriously as a freedom-fighter, and what started out as a mildly endearing phase in your cycle of cartoonish poses has become obnoxious and depressing. It was fun while it lasted, but I'm officially off the Scream bus.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 14 June 2008 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone else going to the neo and non-neo-White Panther knees-up at the RFH tonight? Anyone want to laugh at me for going? I am looking forward to it.
I do not like the mockney cockney accent on Urban Guerrilla, or the reference to suicide bombers.
Does anyone know who is doing MC5 vocals these days?
― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Wayne Kramer was on vocal duties mostly when I saw them in Camden a couple of years back. There were also guest spots with Mark Arm and that women from the Bellrays.
― Discordian, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you.
― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for posting this Nick, though i'm a week late. the last album was so bad that i will have a wait and see approach to Beautiful Future. always thought a new album by these guys would be an event, but not so much anymore.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
MC5 use different lineups in different countries/shows - the Australian tour had Arm and Evan Dando as singers and Deniz Tek on 2nd gtr.
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i bought the last album but never actually listened to it in full... just the random track on shuffle here and there.
― stephen, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
thoughts on Beautiful Future?
won't be able to hear until tomorrow.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 05:51 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the worst album that I've heard all year. Tired, lazy, cliched, half-finished, risible, boring. A clutch of tiny little ideas stretched to breaking point. (And I really liked "Country Girl", so this comes as a big disappointment.)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I have no desire to hear this at all.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
the only version thats been kicking around supposedly on mp3 version has been tracks with a 30 second loop stretching the songs out to full length. Is the full version around now?
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i am still -- insanely, perhaps -- holding out some hope for this.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I maintain the only really decent thing of Primal Scream is Screamadelica. End of story.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
*Bimble mumbles under his breath* *talentless git who just happened to be good friends with Alan McGee* cough cough
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
My brane still says XTRMNTR is awesome and the best thing they've ever done, but I've not got it out in ages so it might not hold up now.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Apart from two or three songs, it doesn't. Screamadelica does, though.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Can't go back, I can't go back."
It says something when Gillespie is reduced to ripping off old BMX Bandits lyrics.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahahah! Wow, man. I barely know BMX Bandits. That's an interesting gap in my musical knowledge I should probably try to correct.
Just like recently when I finally tried to listen to some Fuzzbox songs aside from their track on C86. I mean you know...the girl band, right? We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It. Man, those were the days.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
XTRMNTR is still awesome.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm with nate: it's less awesome than it was in the late nineties. it's the best thing they did, by far, but i listened to it a few months ago (and posted somewhere about it: maybe on this very thread?) and thought, hmm, this is not the ball-crushing behemoth i remember.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
me neither but i still rep for some of Evil Heat
― blueski, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
XTRMNTR only came out in Jan/Feb 2000.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like "Can't Go Back". If the rest of the album's in that vein, I'll be happy. But I'm fully prepared for disappointment.
(Full disclosure. I like: Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR, Evil Heat. I like about 50% of: Screamadelica. Oh and the Dixie-Narco EP's good. I hate: everything else.)
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
2nd primal scream album is underrated
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Vanishing Point is my fave, although I haven't heard an awful lot other than that and Screamadelica.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
XTRMNTR only came out in Jan/Feb 2000
wau? i associate it vividly with a very specific time and place in my life, which i'd swear blind was pre-millennial 1999.
<googles, thinks, ponders>
ah, hang on. i got a promo. so although it's obviously later than i thought, i *was* listening to this before the millennium. good. i'm not losing my mind.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
the only version thats been kicking around supposedly on mp3 version has been tracks with a 30 second loop stretching the songs out to full length.
uh oh.
this, er, might have been the version that...
...oh, it just doesn't bear thinking about.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
a ha ha ha ha.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
haha with bobbys usual repetitive lyrics its probably hard to notice its just a loop. But I think it's better to wait til a proper rip is out (i know I want to hear it before I buy it after the last album)
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, we've all done it.
Haven't we.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2251ce3f4f21900e398f379e80004-320pi
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://troubled-diva.com/themanwho.jpg
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I got a d/l of "Run" Snow patrol, which was just the first line of the song repeated for 3 mins until it cut. I did think wow how intense in an indie way, until I heard the actual single...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, on UniChall last night, one question referred to the HM Bateman cartoons, and "which three words" were his 'signature' cartoon captions..
"The Man Who"
Which explains that Travis album, all these years later.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I just hope the 30 second loops version isnt better than the proper.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"Sides two and four consist entirely of single tones maintained throughout, presumably produced electronically. This might sound arid, to say the least, but in fact constant listening reveals a curious point: the pitch of the tone alters frequently, but only by micro-tones or, at most, a semi-tone. This oscillation produces an almost subliminal, uneven 'beat' which maintains interest."
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link